CIAG Resources

CIAG studies past critical
incidents to understand their impacts on government and society and
develops strategies to mitigate their devastating effects.

For more information on CIAG's conferences,
symposia, and literature, please click here.

April
2015:

What can
young millennials learn from the “Greatest Generation:”

CIAG is excited to announce its collaboration
with ParadeRest on a project that explores community resilience and
critical incident analysis though the eyes of WWII Veterans. The
project, titled “Nickel for your Story,” is an effort to record the
stories of all United States military veterans, starting with those
from WWII, to preserve these invaluable accounts for future
generations

Student interns will record the stories of local
veterans in exchange for a WWII era, silver Jefferson nickel; the very
coins carried in the pockets and purses of these men and women so long
ago. Each account will be submitted to the Library of Congress as
part of the Veterans History Project. We're grateful for the
recent media attention of the project, which was featured in
Stars and Stripes,
UVA Today, the
Cavalier Daily, the
Daily Progress, and on
NBC29 News.

February
2015:

CIAG
Executive Director and Chairman of the Steering Committee Travel to
Europe for Athena Consortium

Greg
Saathoff M.D., and Chris Holstege M.D. will travel to Europe this
winter to contribute expertise to the Athena Project. This meeting of
partner organizations will discuss and plan for the progress of the
program. The Athena Project is an innovative European Union funded
initiative pioneering smarter communications for critical incident.
Among the partners included in this international collaboration are the
University of Virginia and Harvard University.

CIAG Executive Director, Greg
Saathoff served as an editor and contributor for the upcoming
book, Application of Big Data for National Security: A
Practitioner's Guide to Emerging Technologies. The book will be
released in early 2015. While not yet available, the book is
available for pre-order from Amazon using the following link:

Rebeccah Lystash, a recent Master in Public
Administration graduate, will join the Critical Incident Analysis Group
(CIAG) as the new Project Director in October, 2014. After graduating
from the University of Virginia with a BA in Foreign Affairs and
Religious Studies, she served as an AmeriCorps volunteer with the
Virginia College Advising Corps and conducted policy research for the
Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. While pursuing her MPA at
the Maxwell School, Rebeccah worked as a consultant for the
International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program
(ICITAP) at the U.S. Department of Justice where she designed training
curriculum on emergency management systems.

9 July
2014:

Data Driven
Security Strategies Across the World

RSN board members met with academic and private
security colleagues in the United Kingdom on July 9th 2014.
In collaboration with the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism,
Resilience, Intelligence & Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC) and
SAP, RSN participated in the Future of Policing event. Billed as the
essential event for law enforcement professionals the event took place
at the SAP Innovation Center. The event featured speakers who are the
key influential thinkers and opinion shapers from the worlds of
policing and security, both in the UK and USA. Topics of discussion
included the future challenges facing the police in today's digitally
connected society.

For more information on the event, visit
http://www.news-sap.com/sap-police-leaders-explore-data-driven-security-strategies-urbanizing-world/

July 2014:

Research in Targeted
Violence

Christine Standahl McClain, a fourth
year student in the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia,
will join the Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG) team for a
research elective relating to the phenomenon of targeted and mass
violence. For her work, Ms. Standahl McClain will review publicly
available source material that relates directly to recent cases of
targeted violence.

20 June
2014:

Lessons from the
AnthraxAttacks

Law enforcement
leadership, represented by the United States Capitol Police, provided
Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG) colleagues and Expert
Behavioral Analysis Panel (EBAP) members a briefing of the events
surrounding the response to the Anthrax mailing attacks of October
2001.

20 June 2014:

Anthrax and Insider Threat

Colleagues within the Critical Incident
Analysis Group (CIAG) joined with members of the Expert Behavioral
Analysis Panel (EBAP) in a briefing hosted by the American National Red
Cross at their Disaster Operations Center. Panel members from Duke,
Harvard, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Rochester,
University of Virginia, and the American Red Cross briefed governmental
and law enforcement colleagues on their panel's findings and
recommendations.

18 June 2014:

ACC Threat Assessment
Conference

The CIAG participated in the
FBI Threat Assessment at the Atlantic Coast Conference University
Emergency Preparedness and Emergency Response Conference held at the
University of Virginia’s Newcomb Hall on June 17th, 2014. Andre Simons
was the main speaker and was recently featured in the October 2014
issue of Esquire in an article by Tom Junod, which is titled “A Radical
New Look at Mass Shooters. Why They do it and How to Stop
Them”.

Christopher Holstege, MD, who
chaired the Faculty Senate from 2013-2014, joined senate colleague
Gweneth West and 2014-2015 Chairman of the General Faculty Council,
Gregory Saathoff, MD, in briefing university leaders in disaster
response and the role of faculty in designing university-related
response planning.

April 2014:

Katrina Johnson was named Critical Incident
Analysis Group (CIAG) intern for the summer of 2014. Katrina is a
rising second year student at the University of Virginia, and was
selected in April to conduct research specific to the work of CIAG. In
the context of her duties, Ms. Johnson will assist the group in
preparing for upcoming bioterrorism-related briefings at the US
Capitol.

The Charlottesville
Fontaine Avenue Station and Training Center officially won the national
award for the best fire station architectural design in 2011.
Operations are planned to begin on January 6th 2014 and will be the
first new fire station in Charlottesville in more than half a century.
Click here for more
information:

November
2013:

Innovations in Policing Conference co-sponsored with Law Enforcement Action Network
and Research Strategies Network

The one-day conference, entitled “Challenges and Innovations
in Combating Urban Crime” in Washington DC was comprised of an
international group of governmental, private sector and academic
leaders. Participants included FBI Assistant Director James Yacone of
the Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIRG) and colleagues from the
National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, Washington D.C.
Chief of Police Cathy Lanier, Assistant Chief of Los Angeles Port
Police Michael Hillmann, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty,
CBS Senior Correspondent John Miller, Robin Montgomery, Chief of Police
in Brookfield, CT, Former Virginia Governor and Senator Chuck Robb,
Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, Darrel Stephens, Executive
Director of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, Heather Mac Donald of
the Manhattan Institute, Dr. Roger Depue of the Academy Group and
senior representatives of the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism,
Resilience, intelligence and Organized Crime Research at Sheffield
Hallam University.

October 2013:

Officials from the Centre of Excellence
in Terrorism, Resilience, intelligence and Organized Crime Research
(CENTRIC) visited Charlottesville and the University of
Virginia to meet with Charlottesville Fire Chief Charles Werner and to
tour his city’s state-of-the-art fire station that has been judged to
be the most advanced and architecturally significant station in the
country.

Professor Akhgar, Chief Werner, Andrew Staniforth

Professor Akhgar, who serves as the Executive Director of CENTRIC in
addition to his duties at Sheffield Hallam University, and Andrew
Staniforth, Senior Research Fellow and Advisory Board Member of
CENTRIC, met with Charles Werner to discuss shared objectives in
facilitating information technology for use in planning for and
responding to critical incidents.

Click here for more
background on Chief Charles Werner relating to his commitment to
disaster response and its relationship to emerging information
technology.

The Emergence
of Molly

CIAG Steering Committee Chair Chris Holstege, M.D. in his role
as UVA Chief of Toxicology and Director of UVA Student Health discusses
the dangers of emergent use of "Molly" as a drug of abuse.

Gregory Saathoff MD has
been
named to the Advisory Board of the Centre of Excellence in
Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organized Crime Research.

CENTRIC is a
multi-disciplinary and end-user focused research network, located
within the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute
(C3RI) at Sheffield Hallam University. The global reach of the CENTRIC
network now links both academic and professional expertise across a
range of disciplines providing unique opportunities to progress
ground-breaking research.

Similar to CIAG and
modeled after the University of Virginia program, the strategic aim of
CENTRIC is to facilitate communication and creative solutions within
the four key stakeholders in the security domain; Government, Academia,
Public, and Private industry

The mission of CENTRIC
is to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners, policy makers
and the public to focus on applied research in the Security domain.

CIAG wishes to thank
Research Strategies Network (RSN) for their continued support of CIAG
programs. More information on the Research Strategies Network can be
found at: Research Strategies
Network.

Critical Incident - an
event that has the potential for causing social trauma and undermining
social trust, creating fear that may have impact on community life and
even on the practice of democracy.